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"Ah," was all he said when she finished explaining the situation to him. The younger reaper stared at her feet, feeling inexplicably guilty about the whole thing. It shouldn't have been her fault--- she had just been doing her job--- and yet she couldn't quite bring herself to look up and meet her superior's gaze. His silence didn't help; the longer he stayed quiet, the worse she felt.
She was just about to open her mouth and blurt something when he said, "Well, it's a bit unusual, but I think I've heard of a similar case before." Opening his Tome, he flipped through the pages. The younger reaper had to bite her lip to repress the urge to peer over his shoulder. Her own Tome only showed her an assignment if there was one to be had and the the records of each soul she had escorted, but the Tomes of older, more advanced reapers purportedly held other things. She could only wonder at what her superior was looking at now.